The older archives (>10 years old) have been substantially recovered -- more than 23,800 files' worth -- and are now reachable through the search engine and via file download. Email here if you have any questions.
Your support is essential if the service is to continue, there are bandwidth bills to pay every month and failing disk drives to replace. Volunteers do the work, but disk drives and bandwidth are not free. We encourage you to contribute financially, even a dollar helps. Click here to donate.
Welcome to the new Radio4all website! If you cannot log in, you may need to reset your password. Email here if you need additional support.
 
Program Information
Saturday Morning with Kim Hill
Interview
Alan Cooper
 Barry Murphy  Contact Contributor
Nov. 6, 2014, 1:49 a.m.
In a wide-ranging interview Alan Cooper explains his current project to study ancient micro biomes and mitochondrial DNA from a huge collection of hair samples to create a map of pre-colonial indigenous Australia, and touches on the evolutionary detriment of the development of agriculture, US sugar subsidies, the spread of bacteria from oral infections to other parts of our bodies, food allergies, ancient and modern global climate change, palaeontology and scientific research funding strategies.
Radio New Zealand National (http://www.radionz.co.nz/national)
New Zealand evolutionary biologist Alan Cooper is Director of the Australian Centre for Ancient DNA at the University of Adelaide. He has just been awarded a Laureate Fellowship by the Australian Research Council, which will fund his Centre for a five-year project using ancient micro biomes and genomes to study human origins, disease and Aboriginal genetics. Professor Cooper returned to New Zealand briefly late last month, from field work in the permafrost areas of Canada and a trip to Natural Trap Cave in Wyoming, for the Queenstown Molecular Biology conference.

Download Program Podcast
00:47:40 1 Sept. 6, 2014
Broadcasting House, Wellington, New Zealand
  View Script
    
 00:47:40  48Kbps mp3
(17MB) Mono
671 Download File...